Giant Flock of Eared Grebes Crash into Wal-Mart Parking Lot

When water ices up, some duck hunters will use a tarp to fool ducks into thinking it’s open water. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t, but the same concept recently fooled a huge flock of migrating grebes, with tragic results.

Authorities were shocked to find more than 4,000 birds scattered across a local Utah Wal-Mart parking lot on Monday night. According to CBS affiliate KUTV in Salt Lake City, Utah, witnesses claimed thousands of the creatures had crash-landed in the parking area.